Comments

Comment by XFGREAPER

A very good robe and a long quest chain to complete it. starting with Quest "Components of the enchanted gold bloodrobe" (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=1796) given to you in ratchet. a Dangerous place at this level but most are questing and you may get hit a few times while returning different pieces of the robe.

Comment by Spelda

Very good robes, I personally used them up until 40 (when I could use Lich's Robes). I did the quest at 33, however, I had to get a high level friend to help.

Comment by Impatiens

These are amazing robes for the level. If you can get a friend to help so you can do the quest when it first becomes available, do so; you won't regret it. My lock ended up wearing these well into her 50s because nothing better ever dropped. Good caster robes can be hard to come by, so don't miss out on these.

Comment by NIKKO9393

very good robe i completed this quest in lvl 36 now im 40 and still using it/ the stats are very good for vw specc if u whanna tank

Comment by Phazedout

People saying about having it to level 40 put me to shame :)I can't remember WHY, but I had this, particular robe, until I got my dreadmist robe, at like level 60 XDDDDD(Yes, for some reason I don't replace gear for ages, whether I want to...or not :P)

btw, while doing this quest, yes, got attacked by a tauren (hunter?), I started kicking his ass, got off a shadowbolt while he ran, he ran into a building, it followed him;"HK: Scout":D

Comment by NIKKO9393

i said STILL using it. i really love the stats

Comment by pifexx

did somebody ever told you that your an idiot ?

Comment by sunshine117

I asked a warlock if he was going to do this quest and he said he would rather have "robe of the magi" http://www.wowhead.com/?item=1716 does anyone have an opinion on this?

Comment by Kardall

Until The Eye anyway...

Comment by Jiigeri

Soloed with 32 undead warlock alt, not twinked. Easy as hell, decent XP (bought the first mats before I even turned the first one in) and very nice robe. Well worth doing in my opinion.

Comment by druhim

I did this quest on my lock on DI and it's a pain in the ass, but this is an amazing warlock robe. Karas doesn't know what he's talking about because drain tanking as a lock is pretty much the fastest way to level a lock if you spec right for it. This is pretty common knowledge.

Comment by druhim

These robes used to be hot warlock robes for their level before patch 2.3 but now there are lower level chest pieces that grant not only bonus int and sta but spell damage as well. Due to the lack of bonus spell damage on these robes, I'd have to say they're not worth the enormous pain to get them. You can get better with less effort in a number of instances. I would even say the Robes of Arugal are better even though they're wearable at 20 simply because they give +spell dam which is much more useful than a few more points of sta.

Don't bother with these unless Blizzard either makes the quest considerably easier or buffs the robes with +spell dam.

Comment by guineafowl

What can I replace these with as a level 46? I know people said Lich's Robes but they are not as good now a days....Any suggestions would be quite helpful. Thanks!

P.S. I really like intellect more than extra damage so keep that in mind with suggestions

Comment by Sgtown

These robes suck, I'm not bothering with this quest chain, Robes of Arugal from SFK are better. Spell damage is invaluable when grinding.

I've got 107 shadow damage @ lvl31, shit dies. Put VW on one mob, 2-3 dots, 2-3 dots and fear another, I try to 3 dot and drain life on a 3rd mob, but the 1st mob is usually dead by then so I don't have time!

Also lifetap/imp drain soul/siphon life/life drain all add up to 0 downtime with enough shadow damage.

Don't be a noob, stack damage. ;)

Comment by rawrbot

lol? spelldamage is way too insignificant under 60, it's honestly not going to help THAT much. True with the new 2.3 patch not too long ago many of the blues also have +spelldamage and +intell and +stam as well. However you will be getting rid of those within 10 levels or so and then what? Unless you enjoy running instances over and over and over, just get greens. But the greens that have +spelldamage only have that, gimping your stats. Also the way you kill mobs mentioned above must be pretty mana inefficent as well as a strain on your health from lifetapping especially if all you've stacked is +spelldamage, you're bound to have more downtime.

Comment by Meloku

Back in the day, before 2.3, these robes were comparatively much better, as the Robes of Arugal and other such robes only had raw stats also, and this had more of the useful ones. Alas, progress and better itemization means these robes are easily beaten out by more appropriately itemized ones, such as the Robes of Arugal.

Comment by Hakunamatata

The combo if Stamina/Intellect is amazing. And I don't agree that you never run out of mana. When you're up agains 2 enemies you DoT them both and still need time to cast non-DoT spells. That burns up a LOT of mana. Furthermore, intellect increases your spell crit chance, so these are definetely the robes for you. If you can get a friend or guild mate to help you they won't be too difficult to achieve and will serve you perfectly for a long time.

Comment by Lohrr

Nice looking robe, it's short sleeves though... But no worries! Just wear a Stylish Red Shirt underneath the robe and it would look like you have a long sleeves version of this robe!

Comment by arosien

This quest isn't that hard i mean i did have banish so that helped in getting the infernal stone but you could just do Razorfen Downs for Robes of The Lich (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=10762) that has more stamina but the intel if your destruction spec you need alot.

Comment by aedlas

uhmany mage or warlock should get the robe of doan until obtaining the robes of the lich

doing the lock quest fro the blood robe is just a waste of money unless u want the xp

stick with the robe of doan until robes of the lich

this robe imo is just simply not worth it

better off with the robe of the lich

Comment by The1Nut

I really couldn't care less which is better or not, I just do the whole quest line for the EXP it gives you.

Comment by kysta

I wish I could rate the parent post +1, but it won't let me. Is it some limitation of the wowhead comment system that you can't rate a negative post back up? This should really be fixed, because there are a lot of people rating down comments inappropriately.

In any case, I agree completely with the original poster. Stamina and intellect, while useful, are not the most important stats for a leveling warlock. Spell damage, primarily shadow is the #1 stat, spell hit helps some if you don't have points in suppression, and spell crit is very useful if you are destruction spec.

The original parent post:

By Sgtown on 12/06/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)These robes suck, I'm not bothering with this quest chain, Robes of Arugal from SFK are better. Spell damage is invaluable when grinding.

I've got 107 shadow damage @ lvl31, *!@# dies. Put VW on one mob, 2-3 dots, 2-3 dots and fear another, I try to 3 dot and drain life on a 3rd mob, but the 1st mob is usually dead by then so I don't have time!

Also lifetap/imp drain soul/siphon life/life drain all add up to 0 downtime with enough shadow damage.

Don't be a noob, stack damage. ;)

Comment by amrasmord

I had this robe until lvl 58. I only exchanged it for a quest green from Outlands. Back in the day, almost no low-level items had +spell power, so these were really good.

Comment by Corpsebride

How do i say this... Doing Sfk for anything other than picking up the nice stamina ring is pointless... Unless you like SFK ofc :) I've done it as: warlock, warrior, mage, priest, Rogue, Hunter...

On my new warlock i didnt even set foot in the place. I have the robes from WC. mocasine or something and I am gonna do this quest later tonight.

I will wear this robes til i get my paws on Lich. But its something that is warlock only and its something unique and i like that very much.

Its a matter of preferance, pre 40+ I dont find spell damage to helpfull compared to raw stats but thats my opinnion. Im sure its going to be fun to do the quest so to heck with it ^^

Comment by Sealfasch

Had to Health Funnel my Void a few times, keep dots up. Ticked for an extremely lesser amount that usual. So if you're going to attempt to try this below 35, prepare for a long fight.

Comment by devilboy1324

Robe of Power may be better but you have to make it your self which for some people isn't to good

Comment by McBayne

Hasn't Spirit become more important stat for warlock than Intellect? Mb it would be better to put 17 spirit instead of 17 int on the chespiece?

Comment by Cozmomomo

I was, as most people above me are, dissapointed with this robe.The Robes of Doan seem to very easily beat these robes, due to more spell power and more spirit, which buffs my spell power witht the glyph of life tap.

The intellect is good, but I myself am very content with my mana, especially considering using life tap boosts my spell power (good glyph, haha)

I was hoping for something better myself, but still did enjoy this quest chain =)

And this robe does look great!

Comment by Pocky101

This may have been removed. The quest giver for this item isn't offering me the quest anymore. Either they removed the quest or upped the level requirement before the quest is offered. I'm level 35. The quest giver used to offer the quest but I had been ignoring it. Decided with the changes to Int/spell power that I'd go for this and now the quest giver has no "!" for me.

Comment by Tehwarlocknub

Why would they take this out of the game what was wrong with it?

Comment by Nilahrie

I really think it's a shame Blizzard hasn't implemented this model to the game again. Red, dark and gold is just classy and stylish for transmogs!

Comment by DJParticle

So hoping the new xmog system in Legion will give this back to me for having completed the old class quest back in WotLK. :)